Statistics

* A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds in the USA - Symantec

* Over 600,000 laptops are stolen each year in the USA - Safeware Insurance Agency

* 97% of these laptops are never recovered - FBI

* The second most common crime, just after identity theft, is laptop theft - FBI

* Lost or stolen laptops are the top culprit of data leaks/breaches, accounting for 45% (of all the incidents studied) - The Identity Theft Resource Center

* Laptops are the number-one item stolen in San Francisco - San Francisco Police Department

* University campuses are turning out to be a crook's best friend. Jacques Lachance, a security investigator at Concordia University, estimates that one laptop a week is stolen at the University. - Montreal Mirror, October 5, 2006

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